Volume 2

Volume 1

Volume 7 / Identity: List of Selected Authors

A big thank you to everyone who submitted their writing for our upcoming anthology! We received over 1,000 entries from talented writers from all parts of the country (and many living abroad), and after working with our wonderful judges, Mridula Koshy and Sumana Roy, we have selected 22 new

A More Permanent Record

Photographs come alive in Achal Mishra’s Maithili-language film Gamak Ghar. In an interview late last year, the first-time director spoke of early attempts at discovering his calling, his persistent interests in photography and writing and how films ultimately proved the perfect amalgam for them. There were talks of the

Fault Lines and Paper Trails

Stateless in India is a documentary which examines the human cost of preparing the National Register of Citizens (N.R.C.) in Assam. The film aired on Channel News Asia last month and is part of ‘Insight’, the channel’s ongoing investigative series on Asia. It combines analysis by experts,

A Bit of Magic Realism

Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay paints a picture of a future India where the sins of the past are almost forgotten. The year is 2040, and development has finally freed India from deprivation, violence and division. In the wasteland where Mumbai once stood

Point of Pain

Annie Zaidi’s Prelude to a Riot is a closely observed study of the underlying tensions lurking within a sleepy South Indian community. Told from the perspective of various townspeople, including Muslim and Hindu estate-owning families, the story deftly captures the othering of one’s own community, one’s own

Meat-and-Greet

Bhaskar Hazarika has spoken about how it was the sight of two people eating KFC chicken and the sense of their tacit connection forged through the food that first gave him the idea for Aamis, his second Assamese-language feature which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. The